Epigraph: “The ink of a scholar is more holy than the blood of a martyr.” The Holy Prophet Muhammad
The Muslim Times is pooling information about online courses offered by universities or other sources, available scholarships and other related issues of acquiring secular education, in a category, ‘Educational Resources,’ which is under ‘About Us,’ tab in the menu below the picture of the Mosque of Medina in the header.
A few examples of our collection are included here:
The Teaching Company
Many of the prudent customers wait to buy these courses, until they go on ‘sale.’ The company was founded in 1990 by Thomas M. Rollins, former Chief Counsel of the…
TEDGlobal: Cloud schools offer new education
Source: BBC By Jane Wakefield: Technology reporter, TEDGlobal, Edinburgh Children in developing countries could educate themselves using computers, the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh has been told. Prof Sugata Mitra was…
Muslim college carves out a niche in USA
Source: Detroit Free Press BERKELEY, CALIF. — Abass Darab closes his eyes, unwraps the prayer beads from around his wrist and clutches them in his lap. A half-minute or so…
How not to say the wrong thing
Source:LATIMES: (Illustration by Wes Bausmith / Los Angeles Times) When Susan had breast cancer, we heard a lot of lame remarks, but our favorite came from one of Susan’s colleagues.…
Meet Your New School Principal: Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra (born 12 February 1952) is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his “Hole in the…
…Ambitious’ scholarships launched
Source: China Daily The $300 million scholarship fund for foreign students to study in China launched by US private equity tycoon Stephen Schwarzman represents a “remarkably ambitious” effort to boost…
The Second Cooing: Raising Passenger Pigeons from the Dead
Source: Spiegel Philip Bethge/ DER SPIEGEL The world has been without passenger pigeons since 1914. Now, scientists want to bring them back. Geneticist Ben Novak has embarked on the project…
What Can Animals Teach Us About Our Morality?
Source: The Daily Beast: De Waal, an Emory University primatologist, has spent his career uncovering the surprising social behaviors of various primate species like chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, and—perhaps most famously—those…
Switzerland: Too attractive? Universities tested by foreign students influx
by Matthew Allen, swissinfo.ch April 7, 2013 – 11:00 The rising influx of foreign students to Swiss universities is bringing more international talent to the country. But the debate on…
After centuries of stagnation science is making a comeback in the Islamic world
Source: The Economist. THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims have produced…
Online Courses Look for a Business Model
Source: WSJ By MELISSA KORN And JENNIFER LEVITZ Professor Jeremy Adelman has taught a world-history class at Princeton University for several years, but as he led about 60 students through 700 years of…
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